Anthony's Yamaha disappeared after the party

The disappearance of Anthony Casati’s father’s Yamaha is the morning-after crisis that converts a night of adolescent excess into a problem Anthony cannot evade. At dawn, he and his cousin, Colin boy, return to the place where they left the motorcycle and find only its absence. Anthony’s shock is immediate; the search for what happened gives way to a worsening realization that he may have to face his father without it.

The Morning After

Anthony moves through the house after the party, amid beer cans, cigarette butts, and a record turning in the empty living room. The scene has the disordered stillness of an aftermath: even the record player’s small crackle at the end of a side becomes conspicuous. Outside, the swimming pool is strikingly untouched, its blue water artificial and clean against the mess indoors. Anthony notices a bathing-suit bottom—or perhaps panties—at the bottom of the pool and thinks of Stéphanie Chaussoy, whom he has not seen since their swim. He is too exhausted to linger on the thought, and spits into the water.

Colin boy appears from the patio wearing a T-shirt that does not belong to him. Anthony joins him, dragging his feet, and the two head toward the front gate as the sky brightens. Their exchange makes the cousin’s night difficult to read: he says he was nowhere, denies seeing Stéphanie again, and brushes off Anthony’s question about the shirt. These evasions do not establish what he has done, but they place him beside the disappearance as a figure who will not explain himself.

They reach the stacks of wood where they had left the motorcycle only a few hours earlier. The passage measures the interval against the changed feeling of time: the night now seems almost like another life. The Yamaha YZ is gone. Anthony drops to his knees. The physical gesture is the scene’s abrupt turn from fatigue and uncertain conversation to helplessness; the loss is no longer an abstract possibility but an empty place where the motorcycle should be.

A Loss Without an Explanation

The immediate discovery does not identify who took the Yamaha or where it has gone. Anthony’s cousin’s borrowed shirt and evasive answers invite suspicion, but the account supplies no proof that Colin boy stole the motorcycle or knows who did. That uncertainty matters: Anthony is left with the consequences of the disappearance before he has any reliable explanation for it.

The motorcycle is not simply an object he can replace without consequence. In a later conversation Anthony identifies it as his father’s Yamaha, and the prospect of explaining its loss weighs on him. His first response is not a plan but collapse. The event begins a chain of practical and emotional pressure in which the missing vehicle, his dependence on others, and the anticipated confrontation with his father become inseparable.

Colin Boy’s Failed Help

Anthony has counted on Colin boy to help him sort out the crisis, but that trust proves misplaced. He calls repeatedly through Sunday and even goes to his cousin’s house; on Monday he tries again, still without finding him. The repeated attempts establish more than a single missed meeting. Anthony recognizes the pattern as familiar: Colin boy has not been reliable before, yet Anthony is now running out of time and cannot manage the situation alone.

The empty space beneath the tarp in the garage keeps the loss present. Each time Anthony sees it, he wonders whether to run away or shoot himself. These are thoughts of desperation, not actions he takes, and they show how quickly a missing motorcycle becomes, in his mind, a crisis with no manageable exit. The scene links the concrete absence of the Yamaha to his fear of the consequences at home.

When Colin boy finally discusses the matter, he tells Anthony that the motorcycle is never going to turn up and is already long gone. He sketches possible routes through Marseille to Algeria and farther away, drawing on a television report about stolen Peugeot parts that ended up as far as Bamako. Anthony is willing to accept that such routes exist, but rejects the comparison as an explanation of what happened to his father’s Yamaha. The cousin offers a picture of how stolen goods can travel, not information about this particular disappearance.

The Unresolved Choice

Asked what he intends to do, Anthony says that they will have to go see Luc Grandemange. Colin boy dismisses that plan as useless and says Anthony has to tell his father. The exchange leaves Anthony between an attempted investigation and the feared admission: his instinct is still to seek help elsewhere, while his cousin points toward the responsibility he has been avoiding.

Colin boy does not look Anthony in the eye during the visit. That detail sharpens the distrust already created by his earlier evasions, but it does not settle his role in the loss. The episode ends without recovery of the motorcycle or a confirmed account of its disappearance. Its decisive consequence is the pressure it places on Anthony to act while the person he expected to help remains unreliable and the truth about the Yamaha remains unknown.